In an increasingly competitive economic environment, a growing number of law firms are trying to create brand images that will set them apart from their competitors. To do so, they are developing sophisticated marketing campaigns complete with print,...

November 15, 2001, Thursday

Kinko's, the chain of business-services stores, and its agency since July 1998, the TBWA/Chiat/Day office in Playa del Rey, Calif., are parting ways as a review continues for the company's creative and media account, with spending estimated at $30...

November 15, 2001, Thursday

The signs in the store window are eye-catching: ''No Lawyers, Save Money.'' ''Divorce: $189-$349.'' ''Bankruptcy: $199.'' Incorporation: $399.'' ''Living Trust $399.'' They are an invitation to walk into We the People here, one of more than 60...

July 31, 2001, Tuesday

Dozens of inmates on death row lack lawyers for their appeals, in part because private law firms are increasingly unwilling to take on burdensome, expensive and emotionally wrenching capital cases, death penalty lawyers say. The shortage of...

July 5, 2001, Thursday

Ordinarily, Treasury Secretary Paul H. O'Neill would send a deputy to a conference of the Asian Development Bank. But there was no one to send, so he made the 10-hour trip to Honolulu himself. At the Interior Department, Secretary Gale A. Norton...

June 14, 2001, Thursday

A new legal group, the Madison Society for Law and Policy, hopes to become a progressive competitor to the conservative Federalist Society, a formidable force in the legal profession. The Federalist Society, which opposed what it considered the...

May 31, 2001, Thursday

By CRYSTAL NIX; CRYSTAL NIX, a former Times reporter, is a student at Harvard Law School

LEAD: ARRIVING in Antigua, Guatemala, is like falling into a time warp and ending up in 16th- or 17th-century Spain. Colonial-style mansions line the landscape, shrouded by eight-foot walls that hide pools, gardens brimming with multitudes of flowers...

January 24, 1988, Sunday

LEAD: Every now and then in her teen-age years, Andrea Kramer, a student at Harvard Law School, used to wonder whether her carousing would ever hurt her if and when she decided to run for political office.